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Mexico Facts

Mexico Facts

Mexico in a nutshell

  • Population: 30 million
  • Capital City: Mexico City (also the largest city)
  • Main languages: Spanish is the official language, but English is widely spoken, especially in larger towns and cities.
  • Time zones: Mexico has four main time zones. Pacific Time is GMT−8, Mountain Time is GMT−7, Central Time is GMT−6, and Eastern Time is GMT−5. In all states except Sonora, clocks move forward an hour in March and back an hour in November..

 Territory

Mexico’s total land mass is 5,114,295 km2.

Mexico City is the Federal Capital, where the Government hosts the Power of the Union (Executive, Legislative, and Judicial). The Administrative divisions of Mexico are composed of 32 federal entities (states):

Aguascalientes
Morelos
Baja California
Nayarit
Baja California Sur
Nuevo León
Campeche
Oaxaca
Coahuila
Puebla
Colima
Querétaro
Chiapas
Quintana Roo
Chihuahua
San Luis Potosí
Durango
Sinaloa
Mexico City
Sonora
Guanajuato
Tabasco
Guerrero
Tamaulipas
Hidalgo
Tlaxcala
Jalisco
Veracruz
Mexico
Yucatán
Michoacán
Zacatecas

 

Borders

Mexico shares international borders with three nations: The United States of America, Guatemala, and Belize, over a total of 4,301 kilometers distributed as follows:

  • With the United States of America, a boundary line extends over 3,152 km from the 258 Monument northwest of Tijuana to the mouth of the Rio Grande into the Gulf of Mexico. The neighboring states on the northern border are: Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas.
  • The border with Guatemala covers an area of 956 km, with the following neighboring states: Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, and Quintana Roo.
  • The land border with Belize is 193 km and the maritime boundary is 85,266 km along the Bay of Chetumal. The state that borders with Belize is Quintana Roo.

 

Weather

Inland at Elevation:
 December thru March.
Hottest Months:
April & May and July to September.
Coolest Months:
 December, January, February.
Rainy Season in Mexico:
May/June to October.
Hurricane Season in Mexico:
June, July, August, September, October

 

Currency: The Mexican Peso

The official currency is the Mexican peso (MXN), which is divided into 100 centavos. The MN acronym stands for “Moneda Nacional” meaning “National Currency”.

Paper currency is available in the following denominations: 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, and 1,000 MXN

Coins come in denominations of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 20 and 50 cents.

 

     

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